{"id":622392,"date":"2026-04-23T02:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622392\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:46:08","slug":"more-charges-approved-in-internet-child-exploitation-investigation-in-surrey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622392\/","title":{"rendered":"More charges approved in internet child exploitation investigation in Surrey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In January 2025, Surrey Police Service Internet Child Exploitation (SPS ICE) officers started investigating a suspect who was allegedly in possession of child sexual abuse and exploitation material.<\/p>\n<p>The initial complaint came from the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, SPS ICE officers executed numerous search warrants, seized electronic devices, and identified a suspect.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 4, 2025, 41-year-old Kevin James Belcourt was arrested and charged with possession and distribution of child sexual abuse and exploitation materials (CSAEM), voyeurism, committing an indecent act in a public place, and two counts of failure to comply with a probation order, for a total of six charges.<\/p>\n<p>SPS ICE continued their investigation.<\/p>\n<p>An additional 17 charges have now been laid against Belcourt.<\/p>\n<p>They include 12 counts of luring a child, one count of making explicit material available to a child, two counts of making CSAEM, and two counts of publication of an intimate image without consent.<\/p>\n<p>Belcourt remains in custody and a publication ban has been placed on his case to protect the identify of the child victims in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In January 2025, Surrey Police Service Internet Child Exploitation (SPS ICE) officers started investigating a suspect who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,2169,87674],"class_list":["post-622392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-crime","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}